The purrfect cuppa

Things to look for when choosing a café: quality tea and coffee; tasty cakes and pastries; cats.

London's first cat café - yes, cat café - is opening this year. The concept was simple: raise £108,000 through crowd-funding, offering contributors the chance to pre-order drinks. Rent a space in a 'hip' part of town (aka Shoreditch). Fill it with cats from The Mayhew animal shelter. Serve decent coffee. Watch the money roll in.

Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium is modelled on the cat cafés which are so popular in Japan, where the first opened in Osaka in 2004. Lady Dinah's will serve vegan dishes and non-alcoholic drinks. But let's face it: we're all going for the fluffy kittens.

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Dog-lovers, meanwhile, will have to wait a little longer for an equivalent. Brixton's rival sausage-dog café still has to raise £49,000 before it can open its doors. Cats 1 - Dogs 0.